Reviewed By Rabia Tanveer for Readers’ Favorite
The Un-Prescription for Autism: A Natural Approach for a Calmer, Happier, and More Focused Child is a book on how parents can help their autistic children to live a healthy life as it is possible. Written by Dr. Janet Lintala, who is mother to an autistic child, this book details how parents can support the health of their ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) children without giving them medications that just simply cloak the symptoms. The medications make the child “submissive;” however, Dr. Lintala believes that is unnecessary.
Instead of feeding the parents of autistic children medical jargon and information that is not useful for them, the book gives sound advice and a plan of action that they can actually work on. This book can help parents with nonverbal autistic children and children displaying varying levels of issues. This is not a cure! This book gives parents a chance to heal their children so that they can grow and function better. This is a natural method of support for autism that helps to make aggressive children calmer, helps them with their speech and to simply get better with time, patience and the loving care of their parents.
What I really appreciated about this book was the fact that it did not give any false hope, saying that autistic children will be cured and be like other children of their age. The book is informative without being too complex and helps parents really understand what they should do rather than jam their minds with ideas and procedures that don’t actually work. Sound advice from a professional and it shows!